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Church History 3.26.1

Eusebius of Caesarea · Church History · ca. 300–325 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: Menander, Simon's Samaritan successor, claimed to be a saviour sent from invisible aeons.

Greek text · Dindorf 4:117

Σίμωνα τὸν μάγον Μένανδρος διαδεξάμενος ὅπλον δεύτερον, οὐ χεῖρον τοῦ προτέρου, τῆς διαβολικῆς ἐνεργείας ἀποδείκνυται τὸν τρόπον· ἦν καὶ οὗτος Σαμαρεὺς, εἰς ἄκρον δὲ γοητείας οὐκ ἔλαττον τοῦ διδασκάλου προελθὼν μείζοσιν ἐπιδαψιλεύεται τερατολογίαις, ἑαυτὸν μὲν ὡς ἄρα εἴη, λέγων, ὁ σωτὴρ, ἐπὶ τῇ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἄνωθέν ποθεν ἐξ ἀοράτων αἰώνων ἀπεσταλμένος σωτηρίᾳ,

English · Claude translation

Simon the magician was succeeded by Menander, who showed himself a second weapon of the devil's working, no worse than the first. He too was a Samaritan, and having advanced to the height of sorcery no less than his teacher, he indulged in greater marvels, saying of himself that he was the saviour, sent from somewhere above, from the invisible aeons, for the salvation of men,

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Source
Dindorf 4:117 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text
As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation
Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
Extrabiblical texts
  • Irenaeus, Irenaeus, Haer. 1.23.5 (Irenaeus, Against Heresies) · allusion, high confidence
Topics
Heresy

Notes

Translation notes

  • Compare Irenaeus, Haer. 1.23.5.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/26/1/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 3.26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/3/26/1/).

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